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Warcraft - Leaked SDCC Footage
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TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Yep. Tintin was total amateur hour. It was shocking to see something so uncinematic from Spielberg. Still liked it.
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JeremyEtcetera
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There are quite a few negative impressions here. Were that many people expecting something more like Lord of the Rings instead of something Dreamworks/Pixar-esque or Avatar-esque?
neogaffer1
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i sure was
Most WoW fans were (are?) expecting this to be the next LOTR.
edit: In terms of popularity*
I think they were expecting that in terms of money making and popularity but not stylistically
AnathemicOne
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We are? Color me surprised, I thought most WoW fans knew/wanted this to be CGI ie Blizzard cinematics.
Really now? Never heard of this one before....
Pai Pai Master
Banned
So many weird generalizations in this thread lol
I think many are just lying now to fit their agenda
crazyrabbits
Banned
I don't have a problem with the CGI, but the story beats they've shown so far look pretty mediocre.
Pai Pai Master
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Obviously hard to get a real feel for it from the quality of that footage, but I don't feel like Garona was really out of place among CGI environment and characters. You can tell she's a live actor but it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb. Her makeup looked really good so that helped. The real test will be seeing Orcs and dwarves interacting with humans.
MurkyZebra2417
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Expecting this movie to look like The Lord of the Rings was ridiculous from the start. Peter Jackson's mandate to Weta when they were creating/designing Middle-earth was to make it as real as possible. He didn't want typical "fantasy" designs, he wanted them to approach the world as though the people and places in the story were real and existed at one point. It ended up working because The Lord of the Rings lends itself to that approach very well.
Warcraft, on the other hand, is about as fantastically fantastic as fantasy gets. The realistic approach wouldn't make sense at all given the aesthetic and brand of fantasy that Warcraft has defined itself as.
We're talking about a world where dwarves and gnomes fly gyrocopters, drive tanks and eight-foot, bipedal talking cows ride elephant/rhino hybrids. The world is more than a little nutty, and Jones' approach makes plenty of sense.
Warcraft, on the other hand, is about as fantastically fantastic as fantasy gets. The realistic approach wouldn't make sense at all given the aesthetic and brand of fantasy that Warcraft has defined itself as.
We're talking about a world where dwarves and gnomes fly gyrocopters, drive tanks and eight-foot, bipedal talking cows ride elephant/rhino hybrids. The world is more than a little nutty, and Jones' approach makes plenty of sense.
tattooed_dwarf
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Well Duncan Jones said their movie will be like mix of Lotr and Avatar. Hopefully movie has those lighthearted moments that make LotR so homely.
I'll be honest. I thought most of the apes were real. The orangutan in particular.. it's fairly common to teach them sign language so he didn't do anything that made me think he was fake. That's amazing.
My prediction is that itll make enough to cover its cost plus a little more if 100million is indeed an accurate number
But it aint gonna be some 300-400 million dollar movie in the USA
Hi Guys! I just punched my eyes in raw with my fists, poured salt onto them and then allowed someone to urinate all over my face to wash away the sodium and blood that was congealing into my sockets.
Afterwards, I watched the barely view-able-to-begin-with SDCC footage here of the Warcraft Trailer and I can accurately state, without any doubt, that this movie looks bad. I'm not impressed with how badly this footage makes my eyes hurt. The more I tried to watch it, the closer I got to losing consciousness due to the pain. I can really tell how poor the CG is. It is that apparent, even though most things are completely indiscernible by the irreparable damaged I did to my eyes previously and the terrible quality of the potato cam footage given.
This movie never stood a chance. Now let me talk to you about Batman....
Afterwards, I watched the barely view-able-to-begin-with SDCC footage here of the Warcraft Trailer and I can accurately state, without any doubt, that this movie looks bad. I'm not impressed with how badly this footage makes my eyes hurt. The more I tried to watch it, the closer I got to losing consciousness due to the pain. I can really tell how poor the CG is. It is that apparent, even though most things are completely indiscernible by the irreparable damaged I did to my eyes previously and the terrible quality of the potato cam footage given.
This movie never stood a chance. Now let me talk to you about Batman....
AnathemicOne
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Movie GAF is weird man
DontBeThatGuy
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I'm not making any judgements until I see an actual trailer in HD.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Looks like a blizzard cinematic.
I can dig it.
I can dig it.
fluffydelusions
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People hate CGI in their movies and they hate real camera footage in their games.
Games are supposed to be CGI, and movies are supposed to be real people. Thus it was spoken.
Edmond Dantès
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Storywise is this closer to Tolkien's brand of fantasy or writers such as Michael Moorcock?
Gentleman Jack
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Even after your edit this makes no sense. WoW's popularity has been on the decline for four years, why would the expectations from its current fanbase track the Warcraft's film alongside a billion dollar film franchise?
The 'yuck CGI' comments don't make any sense, I'm much, much more worried that everything else about the movie is going to be very poorly done. Oh look it's a shot of two orcs in love that looks lifted from every romantic film ever made. Oh look, a character is pointing out how green the other orcs skin is. Oh hey I think I heard Chris Metzen's voice again. The CGI could very well be the best part of this movie.
Well, Apes are based in reality, whereas the real orcs died out thousands of years ago, leaving no living model to base them on. The apes look great, but they are also a finished product.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Edmond Dantès;171984529 said:
Tolkein influences run deep in warcraft lore, a few events are almost directly lifted from events in the silmarillion.
However I wouldn't say it's gonna be anywhere near Tolkein aesthetically. Magic in WoW is a lot more prominent and it's directly tied to demons in some way or another.
It's very over the top and grandiose, honestly I think this movie should be a lot of fun but I doubt it will be very good.
I can only say that it looked strange to me. I suppose it's rather subjective.
I think with TinTin they felt a need to justify the CG.
"Okay, our movie is 100% CG, so let's also do stuff that's only possible in CG".
That worked great for some the action, but that moving the camera through the eye of a needle perhaps doesn't look all that great gets overshadowed.
Not to mention hearing 'boring' and stuff thrown around a lot, like...it's not a fucking trailer, it's not designed for hype, that's why it's just at SDCC. Idk, I got very little out of it. I thought Gul'dan and the portal looked great and the rest was just 'ok that's fine' since we couldn't really see it at all and we had no context beyond what was obvious.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
This is true for game-play reasons, but lore-wise that wasn't really the case for much of Warcraft history. Hell, Paladin's didn't even exist until the 2nd war. Your average human footman is not only physically dwarfed by an Orc, but also did not live his entire life shaped by a culture that promoted and glorified combat.
Pai Pai Master
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There's also a massive discrepancy in the designs of humans between Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and Warcraft III/WoW. Given that they're taking much of story from the original game they aren't necessarily looking to bring over the unrealistic proportions seen in later installments.
Even the Orcs, while large, are proportioned in a way that makes sense realistically for them, and are closer to the designs seen in Warcraft and WCII.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Humans and Orcs didn't even know the continent that Night Elves live on existed until Warcraft 3, this movie takes place around Warcraft 1.
DirtyManos
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I actually like what I'm seeing. I've always loved Blizzard cinematics, and honestly CGI was the only way to reasonably bring that world to life.
I really don't mind CGI as long as it's visually consistent (Avatar) and not totally immersion-killing (Sucker-Punch).
I really don't mind CGI as long as it's visually consistent (Avatar) and not totally immersion-killing (Sucker-Punch).
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
no night elves they didnt show up till warcraft 3
AnathemicOne
Banned
Warcraft overall is pretty fucking dumb, but its a good kind of dumb.
Mitch
Banned
Every friend of mine that plays this game, including myself, expect this to be an okay Summer blockbuster. That's about it. Not sure why you'd think that.
tattooed_dwarf
Member
Gotta start gathering those crows for next summer. Gonna need quite many to serve.
Eteric Rice
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Aww, it's down now. Is it up anywhere else?
Ennosuke
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Well said. It feels exactly like one if those CGI Trailers from Blizzard and this is what many people are hoping for. I mean look at one of those threads for the new addons, everytime people hope, that they will do a movie like those CGIs.
Monocle
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I for one appreciate your dedication.
The person changed the video, if it is not playing for you, you can try downloading it from the website.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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Edmond Dantès;171984529 said:
It's a lot like Warhammer. In fact, it was originally a Warhammer game that they couldn't get the license for.
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